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Details have emerged of how the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal space Agency's hopes for collaboration on the Crew Space Transportation System (CSTS) ended and what next for the western European €21 million ($26.8 million) Advanced Reentry Vehicle (ARV) phase A work. Read it all in this presentation by ESA's Marco Caporicci
As apture refuses to work with the pdf here is the URL
http://www.uhtc.cira.it/presentazioni/3.2_MCaporicci_ESA.pdf
on February 17, 2009 2:22 AM | Reply
Did Russia's playing around with natural gas have anything to do with this?
on February 17, 2009 9:09 AM | Reply
That's one possible conspiracy theory, that and the Georgia conflict and threatening to point nuclear weapons at Poland and the general belligerant tone. Spaceflight is often a pawn in geo-politics.